Example sentences of "[Wh det] would [verb] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the guidance of British Meat Catering , some highly interesting results were observed on the latest kitchen ready cuts which would have been previously destined for the grill or griddle . |
| 2 | Luton 's loss FOOTBALL : Luton 's annual reports and accounts for last season yesterday showed they made a trading loss of £254,000 , which would have been nearly £1.6 million if they had not sold players . |
| 3 | Five hundred posts which would have been either created or protected here will now go overseas . |
| 4 | The Fenian menace legitimated the establishment of a specifically political police , which would have been utterly unacceptable in the climate of early nineteenth-century Britain ( Porter , 1987 ) . |
| 5 | A young Australian colleague of mine , with a Canadian collaborator , published ( Somatic Selection and Adaptive Evolution , Chicago UP ) some wayout views on inheritance of acquired immunological tolerance which would have been immensely important if they had been true . |
| 6 | In view of this contrast , it is interesting to consider the views of the people of Village , the community which would have been most affected by the closure of Village School . |
| 7 | Of all these possibilities the first was the one which would have been most damaging to Baldwin . |
| 8 | A now famed example of the former ( and we understand that it is now denied by Rolls Royce ) is that the Rolls Royce Silver Shadow was nearly called the Silver Mist which would have been most unfortunate when selling to the German market . |
| 9 | It is likely that locomotor and positional behaviours were related to environmental change , in this case the move from tropical forest habitats in Africa to the subtropical and warm temperate forest habitats of Europe , which would have been both more seasonal and more open , with less complex canopies . |
| 10 | They were rather pleased with themselves for saying this , because it was something the Gruagach would find quite flattering and , also , it had not referred to the Wolfkings , which would have been extremely discourteous , not to say disastrous . |
| 11 | In Sweden teachers collected 10 000 slide-rules , which would have been enough for students starting in 1983 and 1984 . |
| 12 | Although it is clear that these changes were made in order to admit light to the new , deep-plan living accommodation , it is conceivable that the judicious use of ranges of standard reversible and ventilating roof windows might have provided an answer to this requirement which would have been less erosive of the original external appearance . |
| 13 | Even though the annual value of these rights could hardly have been as much as £100,000 a year , the Company was ready to outdo the Bank of England and the East India Company and take on £9½m. of the National Debt , which would have been about a quarter of the total outstanding after the Treaty of Utrecht . |
| 14 | I believe we lost them all the moment he began lying to me — which would have been about four hours after he first climbed into bed somewhere strange , with someone else . |
| 15 | Which would have been doubly misleading for I had never felt more in search of company , nor indeed more indebted to Manhattan , the city without him being a great deal more like the city we had lived in together than anywhere else without him would have been . |
| 16 | Woolwich would have expected any refusal of payment to lead to collection proceedings which would have been gravely embarrassing for Woolwich , the more so as it would have been the only building society refusing to pay . |
| 17 | Woolwich would have expected any refusal of payment to lead to collection proceedings which would have been gravely embarrassing for Woolwich , the more so as it would have been the only building society refusing to pay . |
| 18 | Like the first type , it always implies incidence to an actualizer of the infinitive event , someone or something which would have been explicitly expressed as the subject had the verb been finite . |
| 19 | Moreover , the Soviet negotiators had clearly hoped to sell some of the sugar on the world market , which would have been highly advantageous to them , but the Cubans insisted on the insertion of a clause prohibiting re-export to their traditional markets . |
| 20 | This meant that in each case a secondary modern school which would have been too small to survive was absorbed quietly and without fuss into the grammar school , which did not bother to change its name . |
| 21 | But , no matter how much Steven made his camera swoop and glide and giddy-up around the sets , he could n't stop them from looking like boring old panto scenery , especially since the galleon never put out to sea ( which would have been too mega-expensive ) , and the Lost Boys ' camp was crammed full of Starlight Express -style skate-boarding tracks . |
| 22 | There has been a retreat from the position that States are the only proper subjects of international law , through the acknowledgment that both international organisations and individuals possess a degree of international personality , a development which would have been severely impeded by a rigid adherence to the classic rule . |
| 23 | And there is an increasing number of instances of assault at work targeted at community nurses and staff on accident and emergency units in hospital ( Finney , 1988 ) , a circumstance which would have been almost unthinkable even a decade ago . |
| 24 | They have passed through the flasks electric sparks simulating lightning , and ultraviolet light , which would have been much stronger before the Earth had an ozone layer shielding it from the sun 's rays . |
| 25 | ‘ The Russian Revolution ’ , Russell wrote in March 1917 , ‘ has stirred men 's imaginations everywhere and has made things possible which would have been quite impossible a week ago . ’ |
| 26 | I had sold the contents of the cottages to the incoming purchaser , as well as several large pieces from the melin which would have been quite out of place in a modern house . |
| 27 | In the same year he married the King of France 's sister , Henrietta Maria ; a secret clause in the marriage treaty bound Charles to allow open freedom of worship to English Roman Catholics , a condition which would have been quite unacceptable to Parliament . |
| 28 | The English had not been acquiring new subjects in the first century and a half of their overseas expansion ; for the next century and a half they acquired new subjects at a rate which would have been quite inconceivable if they had been dealing with men and women who thought about their political rights and obligations in terms of nationalism . |
| 29 | Even during our period a great part of agriculture was conducted in ways which would have been quite familiar a hundred , even two hundred years earlier , which was natural since striking results could still be achieved by generalising the best methods known to pre-industrial farming . |
| 30 | Indeed , the suggestion might well have come from him in the first place , which would have been so much better for everyone . |